Photographic prints and postcards showing people, plantation life and scenery in the Australian Territory of New Guinea. Locations include Matala Plantation and Rabaul. Many of the photographs feature local people.

Two ledgers detailing expenses, incomes and assets of the Matala Plantation from July 1954 to June 1955.

Handwritten diary with daily entries relating to activity at Stan McCosker's gold mine, 50 miles (80km) south of Rabaul. Sections towards the back of the journal contain lists of labourers and what appear to be accounts of payments made to them. There are also lists of tools and supplies. The journal encloses an unattached letter from 'Pop' to 'Bin', dated 31 December 1955 and 3 January 1956.

Newspaper cuttings of articles about the German plantation owner and trader Heinrich Rudolph Wahlen and the house he built on Maron Island in the Hermit Group of islands of New Guinea. The file includes a photographic print of the house.

Final order dated 22 June 1953, re-establishing ownership of the Matala plantation to Herbert Walford King and Stanley McCosker under the New Guinea Land Titles Restoration Ordinance 1951-1952; and a map of the islands of the Hermit Group, supplied to H. Walford King in September 1956.

Correspondence between Stan McCosker and the University of Queensland relating to the application by Anne McCosker for enrolment as an external studies student in a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Assorted newspaper cuttings and articles about Heinrich Wahlen and other topics relating to colonial life in New Guinea. The file also contains letters from Stan McCosker to The Bulletin.

Six notebooks containing ideas and notes for stories and plays, three greeting cards, and two typed manuscripts of a short story titled 'The Favourite Uncle'.

Notebooks containing handwritten drafts of poems published in Sea Watch.

Photographic prints and postcards showing people, plantation life and scenery in the Australian Territory of New Guinea. Locations include Maron Plantation, Matala Plantation, Gumyitke Creek and Rabaul. Many photographs feature local people and European-Australians.